Example sentences of "so young as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is young but not so young as Chela , who says she is 18 but looks 16 at the most . |
| 2 | ‘ As though princes , so young as they be , could not play without their peers , or children without their kindred — with whom for the most part they agree worse than with strangers ! ’ |
| 3 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 4 | Not so young as I had thought |
| 5 | His words indicated that he was n't so young as he looked , and she said , ‘ Very well . ’ |
| 6 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |